{"id":1421,"date":"2010-03-08T13:05:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T18:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/?p=1421"},"modified":"2010-03-08T13:06:13","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T18:06:13","slug":"climate-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/2010\/03\/climate-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few more late additions to <a title=\"Serendipity: Do Try This At Home\" href=\"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/?p=1056\" target=\"_blank\">my posts last month<\/a> on climate science resources for kids:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>NASA&#8217;s <a title=\"NASA's Climate Kids website\" href=\"http:\/\/climate.nasa.gov\/kids\/\" target=\"_blank\">Climate Kids<\/a> is a lively set of tools for younger kids, with games, videos (the &#8216;Climate Tales&#8217; videos are wonderfully offbeat), and even information on future careers to help the planet.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"the British Council's Climate4Classrooms site\" href=\"http:\/\/climate4classrooms.org\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">Climate4Classrooms<\/a>, put together by the British Council,\u00a0includes a set of learning modules for kids ages 11+. Looks like a very nice set of resources.<\/li>\n<li>And my kids came back from a school book fair last week with the DK Eyewitness book\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dorlingkindersley-uk.co.uk\/nf\/Book\/BookDisplay\/0,,9781405329699,00.html?strSrchSql=climate\/Climate_Change_DK_Publishing\">Climate Change<\/a>, which is easily the best kids book I&#8217;ve seen yet (we have several other books in this series, and they&#8217;re all excellent). It&#8217;s a visual feast with photos and graphics, but it doesn&#8217;t skimp on the science, nor the policy implications, nor the available clean energy technologies &#8211; in fact it seems to cover everything! The parts that caught my eye (and are done very well) include a page on climate models, and a page entitled &#8220;What scares the scientists&#8221;, on climate tipping points.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few more late additions to my posts last month on climate science resources for kids: NASA&#8217;s Climate Kids is a lively set of tools for younger kids, with games, videos (the &#8216;Climate Tales&#8217; videos are wonderfully offbeat), and even information on future careers to help the planet. Climate4Classrooms, put together by the British Council,\u00a0includes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":392,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,76],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1421"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1483,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions\/1483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}